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Calculating Crime When you think about math, you probably don't think ab...
Calculating Crime When you think about math, you probably don't think ab...
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2020-12-24
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Calculating Crime
When you think about math, you probably don't think about breaking the law, solving mysteries or finding criminals. But a mathematician in Maryland does, and he has come up with mathematical tools to help police find criminals.
People who solve crimes look for patterns that might reveal (揭示)the identity of the criminal. It's long been believed, for example, that criminals will break the law closer to where they live, simply because it's easier to get around in their own neighborhood. If police see a pattern of robberies in a certain area, they may look for a suspect who lives near the crime scenes. So, the farther away from the area a crime takes place, the less likely it is that the same criminal did it.
But Mike O'Leary, a mathematician at Towson University in Maryland, says that this kind of approach may be too simple. He says that police may get better clues to the location of an offender's home base by combining these patterns with a city's layout and historical crime records.
The records of past crimes contain geographical information and can reveal easy targets - that is, the kind of stores that might be less difficult to rob. Because these stores are along roads, the locations of past crimes contain information about where major streets and intersections (十字路口) are. O'Leary is writing a new computer program that will quickly provide this kind of information for a given city. His program also includes information about the people who live in the city, and information about how a criminal's patterns change with age. (It's been shown, for example, that the younger the criminal, the closer to home the crime.)
Other computer programmers have worked on similar software, but O'Leary's uses more math. The mathematician plans to make his computer program available, free of charge, to police departments around the country.
The program is just one way to use math to fight crime. O'Leary says that criminology - the study of crime and criminals - contains a lot of good math problems. "I feel like I'm in a gold mine and I'm the only one who knows what gold looks like," he says. "It's a lot of fun."
It can be inferred from the last paragraph that O'Leary
选项
A will develop programs for other governmental departments.
B is going to use math in looking for gold.
C thinks it's interesting to learn math.
D will further use math in studying crimes and criminals.
答案
D
解析
从文章最后一段话的第二句话 "O'Leary says that criminology 一the study of crime and criminals -contains a lot of good math problems" 可以看出 Mike O'Leary认为犯罪学里包 含着很多好的数学问题。并且本段最后一句话也可以看出这位数学家对这种研究犯罪学的方式非常热衷。选择 D。
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